The Election is OverLet the insurgency begin

I voted against the Ohio State constitutional amendment which defines marraige as between a man and a woman and which denies equal protection under law to non-traditional families.

Like 2.7 million other Ohioans did on election day last, I went down to my local precinct and I cast my one vote for Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts as president.   My wife, my second oldest daughter and my youngest son cast similar votes.  In the end ... it was not enough and George W. Bush won the election in my state by almost 119,000 votes. As a result he also won the election nationwide and was inaugurated to his second term Jan. 20th, 2005   Sen. Kerry was not my first choice. In early spring of 2004 I supported a differant democrat. Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Cleveland, OH. - a co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. However; Dennis Kucinich and his 'progressive' positions on the issues of the day were dismissed by the DNC and Re. Kucinich was not even afforded the curtesy of a primetime keynote speech to the Democratic party regulars at the National Convention in Boston.   I felt compelled throughout the campaign to deny my support to John Kerry because John Kerry voted for the War Powers Resolution - H.J. Res. 114: Authorizing the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq. (PL 107-243) thereby abrograting his constitutional duty to protect the constitution and to insure that only congress could declare war. And not only that. The John Kerry campaign offered only superficial remedies to pressing and urgent national problems such as the inadequate miserly minimum wage and national health care.   After John Kerry's selection as the presidential nominee of the democratic party I found myself once again reaching a decision, (as I had done in both the '96 and '00 elections) to abandon the democratic party and to give my whole-hearted support to Ralph Nader, the staunch people's activist and only clear alternative to the corporate corruption of the two major ( republican and democratic) parties occupying the seats of power in this nation's capital.   I did not know the Green Party was going to desert Ralph Nader. I also did not know 'progressive' allies in elections past, like Michael Moore and Bill Maher, were going to desert Ralph Nader and throw in with the 'anybodybutbushers'. Nor did I know the DNC was going to send out shock troop hoardes of paid lawyers to challenge Ralph in state after state to remove him from the ballot causing him to expend time and resources in a rear guard action that would have been better spent getting out his message. Lastly, I did not foresee the corporate media making a laughing stock of Ralph Nader ( as they had earlier done to Howard Dean ).   This administration's domestic policies of looting the national treasury, weakening environmental protections, underfunding important progressive government programs, failing to provide adequate homeland defense and of continuing to spend the Social Security Trust Fund while running a deficit government which burdens future generations with a stifling financial liability are absolutely unacceptable. Further, the Bush Administaration's provencial foreign policy of unilateral action without regard for international opinion and historical consquence is deplorable and dangerous!   I am a democrat by birth. I was raised in St. Petersburg, FL and I can't recall a time before 1996 I supported any candidate for president who wasn't a democrat.   My vote was rather a vote against Pres. Bush's domestic and foreign policies which are antithetical to progressive democracy. In the end I did cast my vote for John Kerry.  I voted 'against my fears' for a second term for George Bush rather than 'for my hopes' of a viable third party free of corporate influence.   Frodo has failed and Bush has the ring.   Sorry Ralph. Sorry America. Sorry world.